You are bidding on one typewritten, signed letter fromErnst Ludwig Heuss (1910-1967), son of the later German Federal President Theodor Heuss and his wife Elly Heuss-Knapp, member of a resistance movement during the time of National Socialism and an entrepreneur after the end of the war.
Dated Berlin, 17. January 1936.
With printed letterhead "Ernst Ludwig Heuss // Berlin-Lichterfelde-West, Kamillenstrasse 3" (His father Theodor Heuss is listed at this address in the Berlin address book from 1936).
Addressed to a Mrs. Pein, Berlin-Haselhorst, Burscheiderweg 14g (the employee Friedrich Pein is listed at this address in the Berlin address book from 1936).
Concerns legal advice (Inheritance law in a noble family, especially related to the female family members; the recipient apparently comes from one); However, since the legal situation relates to Austria, there is only his non-binding assessment.
About EL Heuss in the early to mid 30s (source: wikipedia): "From 1930 to 1936 he studied law and political science at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg and Bonn. On the 29th. In April 1937 he presented his dissertation. Since a career in the legal civil service was hopeless because, like his parents, he openly rejected National Socialism, he then switched to commercial work."
Scope:1½ described on 2 pages (28.4 x 22.4 cm).
Condition:Paper punched on the side, wrinkled and unsightly stained, with some large tears in the fold and damage to the edges. bplease notee also the pictures!
Internal note: folder 7d/7
About EL Heuss (source: wikipedia):
Ernst Ludwig Heuss (* 5. August 1910 in Schöneberg; † 14. February 1967 in Lörrach) was a German member of a resistance movement during the time of National Socialism and an entrepreneur after the end of the war. He was the son of the later German Federal President Theodor Heuss and his wife Elly Heuss-Knapp.
Life: Ernst Ludwig Heuss was the only child born since the 11th. Married parents in April 1908. His mother almost died due to complications during his birth.[1] Ernst Ludwig Heuss was baptized in Berlin-Schöneberg. When he was young, his nickname was “Lulu” - after the poet and writer Lulu von Strauß and Torney, a friend of Theodor Heuss[2] - later his friends called him “Lutz”. He spent his childhood in Heilbronn. From 1919 the family lived again in Berlin, where Ernst Ludwig attended the Helmholtz-Realgymnasium and the Reformrealgymnasium in Berlin Friedenau. He spent the last four years of school in the country school center on Solling near Holzminden an der Weser, a free school community, where he passed his school leaving examination in 1930.
1930–1945: From 1930 to 1936 he studied law and political science at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg and Bonn. On the 29th. In April 1937 he presented his dissertation. Since a career in the legal civil service was hopeless because, like his parents, he openly rejected National Socialism, he then switched to commercial work. From December 1938 to the 28th In August 1939 he worked as a department head at the German Chamber of Commerce in London. After the start of the Second World War, he first became a consultant and then head of the “shoe distribution” department of the “Reich Office for Leather Industry” located in Berlin. In this role he was responsible for the distribution of all civilian footwear produced and imported.
Ernst Ludwig Heuss supported many of those persecuted by the Nazi regime during the Third Reich, including Annemarie Wolff-Richter. He helped the head of a Berlin remedial education center for the mentally handicapped (“psychopath home”) to escape from Germany.[3] He was also actively involved in securing the assets of a number of Jewish friends and provided courier services for German emigrant and Confessing Church circles.
During his work in Berlin, he was part of a network of anti-fascist-minded employees in other management offices with Willy Hintze, Horst von Einsiedel, Carl-Dietrich von Trotha and Gerd von Eynern. Since 1943 he was in constant contact with the Goerdeler Circle through Fritz Elsas, Julius Leber, Klaus Bonhoeffer and Ernst von Harnack. In the fall of 1943 he convinced his father to leave Berlin, which was constantly being bombed by the Allies, and move to Heidelberg. Ernst Ludwig himself initially stayed in Berlin, also to protect his parents' house from arson and looting.
Heuss had contacts with the Solf Circle in Berlin, which in turn was in contact with other resistance groups and primarily helped persecuted Jews. While Elisabeth von Thadden, an educator who founded the Evangelical rural education center in Heidelberg, on August 8th was executed by the National Socialists in September 1944, Hanna Solf (1887–1954) and her daughter Lagi Countess Ballestrem, née. Solf (1909–1955) was only freed from the prison in Moabit through the efforts of Ernst Ludwig Heuss shortly before her trial, which was scheduled for the last days of the war in April 1945.
By Emmi Bonhoeffer, the wife of the man who died shortly before the end of the war on the night of the 22nd. for the 23rd The resistance fighter Klaus Bonhoeffer – a brother of Dietrich Bonhoeffer – was executed in April 1945. The following statement is documented about the last days of her husband's life: “Two days before his death I saw my husband for the last time. One day before his death, his sister Ursula Schleicher went to the prison again. I didn't go because Lutz Heuss was with me and announced: I'll get your husband tomorrow."[5]
1945–1967: After the end of the war, Ernst Ludwig Heuss married on January 4th. August 1945 Hanne Elsas, one of the daughters of the 4th January 1945 murdered resistance member and Theodor Heuss friend Fritz Elsas. Together they had a daughter, Barbara (* 1947). After the death of his first wife in 1958, he married on January 9th. May 1959 Ursula Heuss-Wolff (1929–2009), the daughter of Annemarie Wolff-Richter; they were married by Helmut Gollwitzer.[6] In 1961 their son Ludwig Theodor Heuss was born.[7] In 1946, Ernst Ludwig Heuss became director of “Wybert GmbH” in Lörrach, and later also of the resulting “GABA AG” in Basel, a manufacturer of oral and dental care products, now combined to form the GABA Group under the Colgate-Palmolive umbrella. His mother had already worked as an advertising copywriter for this company before the war - through her cousin Hermann Geiger, owner of the Wybert company. He now lived with his family in the Lörrach district of Tumringen, where his father Theodor often visited him. His time as head of the company included, among other things, the development of the well-known elmex toothpaste.
After his father's death, Ernst Ludwig Heuss was one of the co-founders of the Theodor Heuss Foundation in 1964. He initially planned a Heuss Library with the participation of the state of Baden-Württemberg. In order to ensure that the Koblenz Federal Archives had access to the political part of the Theodor Heuss estate, the Theodor Heuss Archive Foundation was established in Stuttgart in 1964 at the suggestion of the then Baden-Württemberg Minister of Justice, Wolfgang Haußmann. Ernst Ludwig Heuss was one of the board members of the board of trustees of this archive foundation, which was dissolved in 1971.[8] From 1965 to 1967 he was a member of the advisory board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.
Ernst Ludwig Heuss died on the 14th. February 1967 in Lörrach of a stroke[9] and was buried in the Lörrach main cemetery.